2011-12: Made his first career appearance in the game with Quinnipiac… Scored nine points, grabbed six rebounds in 12 minutes against Lyndon State.

Before Yale: Spent one year at Northfield Mount Hermon School and averaged eight points, eight rebounds and two steals... 2011 Game MVP of National Prep School Invitational at the University of Rhode Island… Averaged 22 points and 11 rebounds as a senior at Dalton School… 1,000-point scorer at Dalton… Named first team All Ivy Preparatory League in 2009-10… Played with the New York Panthers AAU team that was coached by Rafer Alston… Teammates with the Panthers included Sterling Gibbs, who plays at Texas, and J.J. Moore, who plays at Pittsburgh.

Personal: Founded DOSA (Division One Student Athlete) Basketball Clinic. After gaining approval from the NCAA and the Ivy League, Cotton ran two week-long clinics in New York City and three in Lake Naomi, Pa. Cotton created the program in an attempt to deflate the idea that being valedictorian and a star athlete are mutually exclusive. DOSA focuses on the values of hard work and discipline as well as basketball IQ and Division I skills in order to challenge campers intellectually and physically... Served as a constituent liaison for then senator Hilary Clinton… Spent three weeks in Fiji during the summer following his freshman year of high school and taught underprivileged Fijian children how to read and write while also building a path in several villages… Son of Roxana Reid and Hunter Cotton.